Dore Gold writes an article questioning the United Nations’ legitimacy and the role of Syria in actively and rather obviously promoting terrorism—while sitting as a member of the UN Security Council.
Why Syria thinks it can get away with backing the insurgency in Iraq.
With all the focus on corruption in the UN’s Oil for Food program, there is yet another scandalous development at the UN, that has been barely noticed: how Syria, which served as a member of the UN Security Council from early 2002 through the end of 2003 decided that it could continue to back international terrorism and even turn itself into the main line of supply for the current insurgency in Western Iraq. How a Security Council member decided that such a dangerous line of policy would not compromise its special UN status raises serious questions about what kind of a role the organization can possibly play in sensitive areas of international security in the future.
[…] In short, as far as Syria goes, things went from bad to worse precisely during the very same years it sat on the UN Security Council. While the exact whereabouts of Saddam Hussein’s stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction remains a mystery, Western intelligence agencies monitored the movement of large convoys of high-volume trucks from a presidential palace in Iraq to a presidential palace in Syria, on the eve of the 2003 Iraq War. According to former Iraq Survey Group head, David Kay, from US interrogations of former officials in Saddam Hussein’s regime, “components of Saddam’s WMD” went to Syria before the war. From its backing of Saddam’s Iraq to its ongoing occupation of Lebanon and finally to its continued support for international terrorist organizations, Syria hardly safeguarded international peace and security but rather systematically undermined it.
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